IBM Partners With XPRIZE To Inspire AI Evolution And Make Watson The 'Linchpin'

IBM Partners With XPRIZE To Inspire AI Evolution And Make Watson The ‘Linchpin’

By: Matt Dayo | contact@stgist.com February 20, 2016 @ 7:19 PM To be built upon the Watson only, IBM announces partnership with XPRIZE to jumpstart artificial intelligence development that will benefit humanity. Just last month, a report from the World Economic Forum shared a spine-chilling prediction—the rise of the machines courtesy of the fourth industrial revolution—but it won’t kill anyone (like those you see in movies), it’ll just take jobs from unsuspecting people, some of which work for less than $20 or so per hour and others hold high positions with adequate pay. The writing, backed by survey of fifteen top economies worldwide which account for about 65 percent of the total workforce, claims that by 2020, the so called ‘robot revolution’ could wipe out about five million or so jobs worldwide because…